In 2008, Prof. Sohns was a Resident in the Department of Cardiology and Pneumology at the Georg-August University in Göttingen, in 2015, Professor Sohns became senior physician specializing in electrophysiology in the cardiology department of the Asklepios Klinik St. Georg in Hamburg before becoming Deputy Clinic Director and Senior Physician at the Clinic for Rhythmology / Electrophysiology, Heart and Diabetes Center NRW, Ruhr University Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen.